From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 17530@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 14:27:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa2cf034-0ac4-4e7e-ab67-4f28719aa2ae@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87impta7ug.fsf@gmail.com>
> > But at least in Emacs 26.3, the default is still
> > `(all)'. For the record, this part of the problem
> > hasn't been addressed:
> >
> >> If someone does not customize this or does
> >> `package-initialize' in their init file before
> >> loading `custom-file' then they might be in
> >> for an unwelcome surprise, depending on what
> >> packages they have locally.
> >>
> >> The default value would be better as nil, IMHO.
>
> A default of nil would mean that no packages are loaded.
No, just by default. No packages loaded by default.
> So pretty much anyone installing packages
No, anyone who wants to _load_ packages. You would
specify/configure which packages to load, yes. Is
that outlandish or too restrictive?
> would have to customize it to `(all)' in order to
> get their packages working. That sounds like a
> worse default.
Not to me, it doesn't. Just because you've installed
some packages doesn't mean you want them to all to be
loaded. That's a bit like automatically applying
`require' to everything you have in your `load-path'.
Why would we assume that, by default, users should
load the latest installed versions of all installed
packages?
Do I feel strongly about this? No. But it seems
wrong.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-15 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 16:26 bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type Drew Adams
2014-05-19 16:33 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 0:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 15:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-15 21:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-09-15 21:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 22:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 23:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-16 1:18 ` Drew Adams
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